Calculating rowspan for cellmerging

Ok... Here is a small demo that shows you a way how to calculate the rowspan.

contacts.xml will be the starting point for this exercise.




















In a first step we do a little xml to xhtml conversion in order to view our data in a table.

contacts2html.xslt:





















The result is the following:










Now suppose we want to merge cell's in the city column.

mergecells.xslt snippet:












The final output looks like this:











This demo shows you it's quite easy to calculate the rowspan using the 'deep-equal' function recursively.

Cheers,
Robby